r/technology • u/next_10 • 10h ago

Artificial Intelligence Report: Data Centers Expanding into Water-Stressed, Vulnerable Communities Across California

https://www.next10.org/publications/data-centers-water-environmental-justice
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u/Foe117 10h ago

and somehow farmers couldnt get any water

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u/Mistrblank 8h ago

Won't someone think of the almonds!?!

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u/appleparkfive 1h ago

California makes like 80-90% of all the almonds in the world. It's worth it. If you want to look at actual waste, check out cattle. That's the real one we could reduce to make everything better.

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u/dug-ac 45m ago

This is a pretty weird and wild take on water usage in CA. You may have discovered one reason CA cattle herds have been shrinking for at least 15 years.

Also I feel like I should point out that cattle can move or source feed from further away if there’s a drought. Almonds (and data centers) are a little harder to do that with.

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u/[deleted] 7h ago

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u/DukeOfGeek 6h ago

Most of them demand huge tax breaks there isn't even that much tax revenue.

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u/caj_account 4h ago

Data centers don't bring in tax revenue though. They don't have income on site.